/**
 * Copyright 2010 Nicholas Blair, Eric Dalquist
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

/**
 * 
 */
package com.googlecode.ehcache.annotations.config;

/**
 * Interface that defines a voting mechanism for matching cache names.
 * 
 * @author Nicholas Blair
 * @version $Id: CacheNameMatcher.java 521 2010-06-29 21:11:21Z eric.dalquist@gmail.com $
 */
public interface CacheNameMatcher {

    /**
     * 
     * 
     * @param cacheName
     * @return {@link Vote#YEA} if this should definitely be included, {@link Vote#NAY} if definitely excluded, or {@link Vote#ABSTAIN} if impl has no opinion
     */
    Vote matches(String cacheName);
}
